GUTIERREZ QUIROS 



MANUEL GUTIERREZ QUIROS 



Man of affairs; official. 



Manuel Gutierrez Quiros was born in 

 Santa Clara on the twelfth of February, 

 1856, and began his education at the Co- 

 le gio "Santo Domingo" in his native town 

 whence he went in 1868 to the Colegio "El 

 Salvador, "then under the direction of the 

 well-known author and educator Senor 

 Jose Maria Zayas. 



As a result of the revolutionary activities 

 of his father and the consequent confisca- 

 tion of all his property by the Spanish 

 Government, Gutierrez was thrown upon 

 his own resources while yet quite young. 

 At the age of nineteen he became a teacher, 

 but shortly afterwards gave up the pro- 

 fession to enter business, by which he had 

 acquired some capital when in 1897, during 

 the Revolution, being President of the 



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